William Carey University is a private Christian liberal arts college located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in the United States, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Mississippi Baptist Convention. The main campus is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, with a second campus located in the Tradition community near Gulfport, Mississippi and Biloxi, Mississippi. William Carey University was founded by W. I. Thames in 1892 as Pearl River Boarding School in Poplarville, Mississippi. A disastrous fire destroyed the school in 1905, and in 1906, with the backing of a group of New Orleans businessmen, Thames re-opened the school in Hattiesburg as South Mississippi College. Another fire destroyed the young institution, forcing it to close. In 1911, W. S. F. Tatum acquired the property and offered it as a gift to the Baptists, and the school re-opened as Mississippi Woman's College. In 1953, the Mississippi Baptist Convention voted to move the college into coeducational status, which necessitated a new name for the institution. In 1954, the board of trustees selected the name of William Carey College in honor of William Carey, the eighteenth century English cobbler-linguist whose decades of missionary activity in India earned him international recognition as the “Father of Modern Missions.” The school changed to university status in 2006.The college offers baccalaureate degrees in the areas of arts and letters, education, natural and behavioral science, business, religion, music, and nursing. The university also offers M.B.A, M.Ed., M.S. in psychology, M.S. in Health Information Systems, and an M.S.N. degree, as well as a specialist degree in elementary education and a Ph.D. in education administration. In 2009, William Carey opened the College of Osteopathic Medicine, and 2010, welcomed its first class of 110 students. In 2012, Carey added a Ph.D. program in nursing. Three trimesters of eleven weeks each comprise the academic year. Two summer sessions, a J-term, and a May Term session are also offered. Wikipedia.

In recent years geographers have become increasingly interested in the idea of racialized landscapes. In the American South, this adds a new layer to some already heavily labeled places of racial identity and conflict. Although swimming pools are generally viewed by mainstream society as sites of recreation and socialization, this article conceptualizes them as racialized places on the landscape. Here, a group of swimming pools is studied over a period of time to analyze not just its history, but also its place within the social construct of race and racial politics in the United States. Through an analysis of Mississippi's public pools from 1900 to 2010, this article shows how racial identity and social change affected public pools and came to play a determining role in whether they declined or survived over time. This study contributes to current research on race and landscape by broadening the discussion to include public recreation spaces.
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